ETECSA installs palm tree-shaped radio base in Havana

The Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) installed a radio base in the shape of a palm tree in Havana.

Alejandro Marcos Jambú, director of the western territorial of the entity, shared images of the "beautiful artificial palm", placed in the Monte Barreto Ecological Park, in the Playa municipality.

As expanded Cubadebate, the palm will house a new radio base that will expand the cellular signal and improve coverage throughout the park and its surroundings.

"This initiative seeks to meet the growing demand for communication and ensure a seamless experience in terms of phone calls, Internet access and other mobile functions," the information states.

In radio communications, base stations are used to connect low-power radios, such as a mobile phone, cordless phone, or laptop with a WiFi card. It serves as an access point to a fixed communication network (such as the Internet or telephone network), or for two terminals to communicate with each other through it.

In the area of wireless computer networks, a base station is a radio transmitter/receiver that is used as a nexus of the wireless local area network, in addition to serving as a gateway between the wireless and fixed networks.

What ETECSA has not completely resolved is the problem of poor Internet connection in Cuba, something that causes great inconvenience to users, who pay high sums for a service that, far from improving, is getting worse and worse.

In December, the company announced impacts on services and applications that require Internet access by mobile data, from the Etecsa wifi sites and at Nauta Hogar, due to maintenance work and user assurance.

A month earlier, there was a unexpected outage in terrestrial fiber optic infrastructure that caused difficulties in the operation of fixed and mobile connectivity services, such as the availability and speed with which users can access and use the Internet.

Less than 8% of Cuban homes are connected to the Internet, according to data provided in November by the regime which, however, boasted of "advances in digital transformation and access to technology."

In an article published in Granma, the government said that "more than 282,000 homes have the Nauta Hogar service, with a clear intention to prioritize rural populations."

This represents just 7.23% of the Island's housing stock, estimated at 3.9 million houses, and just 8,000 more new services than the previous year.